Atheist Clubs Invading Public Schools?

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/07/11 20:33:12

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Unfortunately there is a growing trend in high school clubs that may start attracting students and leading them in the wrong direction. Secular Student Alliance is a national organization geared to college and high school clubs for atheists, humanists, freethinkers and agnostics. Some students who are attracted to these clubs refer to themselves as ‘nones’ – they have no religious affiliation whatsoever.

J.T. Eberhard, director of the high school program for Secular Student Alliance is working to expand the number of clubs in public high schools throughout the nation. At the start of the last school year, they only knew of 12 SSA clubs, but that number rose to 39 by the end of the school year and they have requests for starter kits for 73 more clubs that they are working on.

Radical Ed 2012/07/12 06:11:21

there's a problem with this?

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TheCouchF*cker 2012/07/12 02:40:59

I'm sorry, I fail to understand the problem.

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morris44 2012/07/11 21:22:54

Why is this unfortunate?

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the_old_coach 2012/07/11 21:13:50

As a human with no religion or religious views, I find nothing wrong with people exploring their own views.

Let them make up their own minds.

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dustin.oubre 2012/07/11 20:54:05

How is this invading? It's just a group of like-minded people discussing their beliefs. After all, public schools have religious after school clubs. So, why can't non-religious clubs be formed?

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TheBadOne 2012/07/11 20:36:16

There've been prayer groups for as far back as I can remember. What's so different with this?

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Zuggi 2012/07/11 20:33:59

Cool: student groups for folks who actually think!

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